Banded Wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus and Broadnose Shark, Notorynchus cepedianus

Plate 43, Figure 1. Carpet Shark, Crossorhinus barbatus (now known as the Banded Wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus)

Plate 43, Figure 2. Seven-gilled Shark, Notidanus (Heptanchus) indicus now known as the Broadnose Sevengill Shark, Notorynchus cepedianus) found in Hobson's Bay

Banded Wobbegong

This most beautiful Shark is not very uncommon in Hobson's Bay, three fine specimens being in the Museum collection. The coloring varies in size and shape of the cloudings and spottings a little; and the number of lobes into which the skinny appendages of the sides of the head and neck are divided is so irregular that the two sides are often dissimilar in one individual.

Broadnose Shark

The sharks of this genus are easily distinguished from all others by having only one dorsal fin, and the peculiar conformation of the teeth, as well as the great size and number of the gill-openings.

This is one of the rarer Sharks found in Hobson's Bay, from which locality there are three specimens in the Melbourne National Museum, the one above described being the largest of the three, and a female. A smaller male is in the collection, with moderate claspers.